t i fv h r OID TIM&rAVOMTES jo: IF I SHOULD (Authorship If I should die to-nieht. My Minds would look upon my quiet face Before they laid it in its resting place, And doem that death had lett it almost fair; And laying snow-whito flowers against my hair Would soothe it down with tearful tendcr- And foid ir.y har.iU vuh liiv'eriti'j cares. Poor hazels, to empty ar.d so cola to night. If I should die to-a! -lit, My friend would call to mind, with lov ing thought., Some kindly deed the icy hands had wr jtiglit ; Rome ccntlo word the frozen lips had said, Errands on which the willing icet had sped. Tlie memory of my selli.dinejs and pride, My hasty words would all be put aside, Aud so 1 should be loved and mourned to eight. S THE POET "ANON.95 i By C. B. Be Camp. ' JOHN F. HOUGH owned tne chair factory, and devoted his life to the pruniottou of Its pros perity. Ho was Cfty-Bve years old, squaw-hcr.dcd and firm of lip, and esteemed as one of the most successful citizens of Porhampton. He bad be gun life on a farm, saved money until he had Huftic'.-ent to begin a small busi ness of chalr-mendlug, mul from the first he bad prospered. In addition to the chair factory he possessed a hnlf intetest iu the opera-house, and was on? of the chief shareholders in the Dorhanipton street railroad. The name of John I. Hough was synonymous with success. He was a man who had made himself what he was legitimate ly, before tho eyes of his fallow-townsmen: his attainment was in .1 measure the town's attainment, lie was re spected, admired. He lived in a large white house with a cupola, and every week-day morning lie walked to the chalr-faetory, situated on the edge of I orh:iinpion, and walked home at noon to bis dinner, lie had n wife and one child, a son, twenty -two years old, named Herbert, whom he bad sent to the host colle.ee that bis son knew of. Mrs. Hough was a large woman with a plain, flitrld face. She would have been singled out by a stranger from among the women of Dorlmmpton as the wife of John I". Hough. On Sundays Mr. Hough Attended church with his wife, and after a' hearty dinner, If the weather was fine, he walked out alone Into the country, oftenest In the direction of Kramer's wocd3, a considerable tract of timber two miles from town. lie looked about him Bs be walked: ::t lb? trees, nt tho sky, at the wide meadows over which cloud shadows swept, once be stopped to watch a calf risking about its mother. Again bo paused to listen to chirn o? a bad on the telegraph wire. He stood whh his bead on one side, bla large liatub hidden In tho pockets of his smooth gray overcoat. Beach in? tha wood, he proceeded slowly, topping often, and sometimes seating himself on a log. He fojlowed the flicker of a red squirrel's tail; stooped over a pale forest flower; stroked a er.sliiou of delicate moss at the base of a decaying stump. On one occasion a tree, recently fallen, engrossed his attention Kor a Ion? time. He observed the withering leaves, some of them brown and brit tle, others with a green patch of per sisting life at their Peso, lie followed tlie far sweep of the br.mc'ees, mid sur veyed tlit' screen of ro.-.t.-i higher than bin hat. Finally he seated himself 011 a short stump nr.ir by and took from bis pocket some sheet i of noiopa'.i'T. He hcM a p-nc'.l tightly near the ititd, aad put it frequently to his lips. Then, recrosslr.g bis legs, he wrote, cu the uncertain support of bis fcu ,: c Alas, you have fallen. O kit!;: Of the forest; No longer will ring 'Xhe song of the birds In your branches. II- ceased wrl'.lrg for a time ami emrresod his bps. lie sc.T.tohod out "brauehes" and wrote over It "leaves." Then he proceed" J: The winter's cold storm when It heaves Through tho forest will miss your strong might That r. sifted It nil through the night. Through u:n::y a g.ile 30,1 have stood, Proud monarch of all In the wood. But at last the buffet or Fate lias brought you to this falb n state. ire read ever wbr-.t be had written, and resumed his contemplation of the uprooted tr.v. Then he put the paper and pencil In his pueUct and walked home, his ch!n sunk on his era vat. In the evening, after his wife bad gone upstairs to bed. he spread out the notepnper under the sitting-room lamp and wrote, with occasional erasures: So man, who bns riches and might. Believes himself strong for the fight. He hag weathered the gales of life And erpects to last all through the strife. But. alas, the time comes when he, too, Will And that his triumph Is through.' And he. of whom people have thought Th:-re was no one so powerfully wrought. Will be swept from big pine by a breath. The breath that we mortals call Death. He copied the Une on a sheet of foolscap, writing In a tall.baclt-slautlng ; band, quite different from the short, square characters on the notepaper. In making the copy he used a pen with a porcelain handle, which be dipped In an ink-bottle covered with red leather. He bad taken these from be hind a clock on ihe mantel. At the top of the sheet he wrote. "On a Fallen Tree," nud at the botrom, beuenib the biBt line, to the right, the word "Anon." He placed the papjr lu na envelope, which he nddtvssed In tho same tall baek-haud to the editor 0 the Dor humplon Huyle Cull. , tSom time lu the week followlug the DIE TC.N1CHT. Disputed.) If I should, die to night, Even hearts estranged would turu once moro to me, Recalling other days renWrscfuily; The eyes that chilled me with averted ulance Would look upon me as of yore, perchance, Ar.d soften, in the old familiar wny; For win could war with dumb, unconscious chiy? So I might rest, forgiven of all, to-night. Oh. friends, I prav to-night. Keep not your kisses for my dead, cold brow The way is lonely, let me feel thorn now. Think gently of me; I am travel worn; My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn. Forgive, oh hcartj estranged, forgive, I plead. When dreamlem rest is mine I shall not need The tenderness for which I long to-night. uues --(.in a t alien iree apiie.uvd on the editorial page of the Kuglu Call Mr. Hough bought two copies of the paper that day, putting one of them in the inside pocket of bis coat. When alone that evening he cut out the verses w'th the scissors from his wife's work-basket, and slipped them into an old wallet which contained many other clippings of vr.?e signed "Alton." Ouce the F.ugle Call directed atten tion euitoriany to tneso anonymous contributions. It asked, "Who is our poet?" Dut tho answer was cot forth coming. There was considerable In terest In the question, and the unknown author was sometimes referred to as the "sweet singer Anon." Several of the Dorhampou women of known lit erary bent were BUspectcd of having writteu the poems, but they disavowed the autfi'orsblp of them. Tho contri butions to tho Bugle Call increased in number. Herbert Hough brought a college friend with him when he returned home for the mid year vacation. Mr. Hough rarely took his eyes oft' Her bert, lie noted the careless way his sou threw a leg over the arm of a chair; the Ind 'pendent manner In which he thrust his bands Into his pockets when standing before the tire. He listened to debutes between Her bert and bis friend concerning the value of certain studies, and his firm lips parted and his tight jaw dropp.-d. Whenever Herbert said "Political Economy" or "ltenaissanee," his father would curve the toe of bis boot up ward and his face would express pro found attention. Herbert nud bis friend talked a great deal about lit-1 crnture in an esoteric way, praising and damning tho life-work of author, whose very name the eldor Hough had never heard mentioned. Upon Herbert remarking that a certain classic writer "made bim tired," his father said, "I should tbiuk they'd know better than to teach you about him." One cvenlug, shortly after the young men had nrrived, Mr. Hough, on re turning from the chair-factory, tossed a copy of tho Bugle Call on the sitting room table. It was folded with the editorial puge outward. After supper, when they were seated n'uout Hie table, h? regarded the newspaper both ex pectantly uud uneasily. He also watched bis son. Herbert was moving around the room restlessly, hands in pockets. At length he approached the taMo and picked up tli paper mechan ically. "Now, Steve," he said to his friend, 11 ou n.e goon 111 ro.nl you Borne moving Journalism. This Oorliamnton paper in really bitter than n comic weekly." He glauecd occr the edi torial page until hij attention jeas sud denly arrested. He read for a moment, ami then burst into a shout of laugh ter. "Oh. dear!" bo gasped. "This Is bet ter than I expected. Mow listen to If. Tills is printed iioi us a Joke, but seriously." He began to read: "MUlc bird, little bird, are you cold. Up there on the t-legraph wire? While I am wrapped in 1111 overcoat And have a warm the'" The reading wan I11terrupt.nl by an explosion of laughter from Herbert's friend. "Ho you wonder why I wear a hat, While you have naught on your head? Are you thinking that when the night con.es You ure homeless, but I have a bed? "Or Is It perhaps for a mate That you twitter so softly and sweet? Cheer up. little bird, 'the Spring's coming. When birdies with lovers will meet." "This," said Herbert, In a choking voice, "Is called, 'What Say, Little Bird?' and It is signed 'Anou.' Well, I should hope so." He threw the paper to his friend, and lay helpless from laughter In a chair. "Oh, say. dad," he cried, when be could regain his voice, "you ought to get out an injunction against that sort of thing. That's criminal." .Mr. Hough was sitting in the shadow beyond the circle of lamp-light, one big hand smoothing his leg. "Don't you thlnk-dou't you think it Is good?" he asked. "Oh. dad " Herbert was at a loss for words. "Well, It's natural that you shouldn't see it the way we do, because you have never bothered your hend about poetry and that sort of thing. But this stuff Is so rotten that It's good. That' about the size of It." Herbert took the paper from the Inble and cut out the poem with his penknife. "I am going to make a great bit with this when we go back," bo said. An hour or so later the young men left the house. Mr. Hough sat long in the shadow, his bunds on his knees. "Are you coining upstairs, Johu?" called his wife from above, "After a bit, mother." ' lie opened a stnnll safe hi tie corner of the room nnd took from Itthe wal let. It was almost filled with dipping) from the columns of the Btule Call. He p'.illoil tho clippings out, ntd with out examining them thrust Hum Into the dying coals of the pirn to tlri, The paper turned lilncU slowly, mid asplrnl of smoke rose from If. He kndt on tho fender and blew the bladening paper Into flame, nnd ns ho blw a tear rolled down to tho corner o his lips. Harper's Weekly. CAVEOWELLERS OF ENCLANt, Trosloitylrs Are. Nm t Extinct Intns Itnltrd Kingdom. Although there Id nothing Iniierenly improbable In the circumstance. It Is not generally known that the race f the troglodytes Is not yet extinct, nrd that there nre at present quite a nun ber of cave dwellers iu modern Brit nln. This Is the title of an entertain ing contribution In the Windsor Maga zine by "York Hopewell," who de scribes and Illustrates a number of these modern cave dwellings. The In habitants nre by no menus hnlf-sav-ages. At Klnver Kdge, near Birming ham, are two rows of modern villa resl. deuces, formed mainly out of tho "Im memorial caves hollowed out of the hills," with stone front projections. Th.sedwellln?9 are Raid to be "far more comfortable and luxurious than the less original residences to be found In more pretentious neighborhoods." The rooms are "spacious and rainproof," and the people of Envllle, we read, "as the village formed by these houses is called, are Justly proud of their quaint homes, and speak with patriotic affection of Holy Austin ltoek, the stone from which their dwellings ure hewn." There are several remarkable cave dwellings nt Kuaresborough, In York shire, the "proprietor" of which has adorned the various levels of his hill side cave homo with battlements and calls it Fort Montague. At Arcley Kings, In Worcestershire: Scaton, near F.xcter: Sen ham, on the Durham const; Stourton Castle; Castle Hill. Dudley; and elsewhere are other homes of mod ern troglodytes: and nt Lodalg, near Oban, is a cave fitted up nud for n long time used ns a place of worship. The writer of this Interest!::? article avers that "It Is no exaggeration or perver sion cf the truth to say that there are many caves In the United Kingdom which nre much better rlteed for human habitation, and would be far healthier and roomier for n familv fassureillv roomier"), than are some of the mod ern Jerry-built erections that our crowded towns and villages are so f.i maliar with at the beginning of tho tweuiieth Century." London Dnilv News. Cows, Tlielr Llltos and Dislikes. 'Cows have their likes and thetr dislikes," said the milkmaid to the summer boarder who was curious to see every part of the farm. For instance, a cow admires a horse. nnd will stand and watch one for long time. She is sort of timid about him, but she admires bin Just the same. She has a contempt for a mule. nnd seems to be amused by bis antics. Hog3 she tolerates, that's all. And sheep, she hates. She will not eat grass where sheep have been. She hates clogs, too, but will tolerate the shepherd dog, because she knows she simply bus to, and that the shepherd dog will not bite her. "Cottle go wild r.t being let Into a fresh pasture," added the milkmaid. "It seems to go to their heads. Each is arr.-iid that the other has got a better feeding place than herself, and trkg to drive her neighbor away." "Then ther? is a good deal of human nature in the cow, after all," mu3ed the summer boarder, who had studied a year or two at a university, nud was given to philosophical reflections. "Well, I should smile," nnnvcred the milkmaid. "A single cow wlili a calf will boss a whole herd of steers,." nnd swinging lur pail over her arm, she went down to tho milking pens. Nw York Trihunu. Otiltimo Menus. Dinner was a substantial affair In the reigu oil yuocn Elisabeth, who was by 1:0 means indbVerent to tho pleas uivs of the table. The first course on .ifl-mt occasions would probably be wheati n tluunnory, stewed broth, spin aeh broth, gruel or hodge-podge. The second consisted of tish, nnioag which may be noted lampreys, stock lish and Utirgeou. with side dishes of porpoise. The third course comprised quaking pudding, bag pudding, black pudding, white pudding and marrow pudding. Then came veal, beef, capons, humble pie, muttou, marrow pasties, Scotch collops, wild fowl and game. Iu the fifth course enme nil kinds of Bweets. creams in all their varieties, custards, cheese cakes, jellies, warden pies, Junkets, syllabubs and so on, to be follow 'd perhaps by white cheese and tansy cake. For drink there were alo and beer, wine, sack and numerous varieties of mead or metheglin, somo of which were concocted out of as many ns five and twenty herbs, and were redolent of sweet country per fume. Chicago News. Crown Rubles, One of the rubles lu King Edward's crown, valued at $50,0, was a pres. ent to Edward, the Black Prince, from the King of Custlle. This Jewel subse quently shone In the crown of Chnrlos II. Although wrenched from the grasp of Colonel Blooel in his abortive at tempt to steal tho crown, it wng lost for omo days nud was found by an edel womun, a crossing a weeper, says the London Tatler. By the way. Hol land once had a successful raid made upon Its regal diadem, worth $(500,000, In 182, the thief being Polarl, an Ital Ian, who managed to escape with his plunder to New York. For two years the whereabouts of the crown jewels wore a mystery, when the culprit wa betrayed by a companion, aud the gems recovered from America and elsewhere. Coal-Tar Sweets. Saccharine nnd other coal-tar prod ucts nre being much used iu Mace of sugar or sweetening Jams, syrups, bev. ersges, pastry nnd other food sub stances. Sucramlne, one of these sub stitutes. Is credited with 700 times th sweeteuiug power of cane ugar. Chapters of STRANCE STORIES CARNERED FROM DIVERSE SOURCES. Hoi 1.1 Clsnr Ahitpil Nmts. Among beetles there are, says a nat uralist who has recently been si'udylug them, a few families which spend much of their time lu constructing novel nurseries for their little ones. A nursery of this kind looki at a distance lllte a cigar. hanging fiotn n tree, bin it Is really a number of leaves which hr.ve been rolled by a beetle Into the f hape of a cigar. In doing this work the little insect dlsphys remarkable Intelligence, for each leaf Is rolled deftly nud carefully, and nowhere in the hollow Interior Is there even a tiny hole to be neen. There Is not a bird's no.-.: to be found that Is more carefully constructed than one of these beetle's nests. The so-called blreb tree beetles excel nt work of this kind. Beetles which in fest vineyards also roll loaves in like mini'"?, but, owing to the size and shtpe of the leaves of the vine, rarely succeed In doing very artistic work. Moeover, they do not join the leaves together by a sort of glue, ns is the custim of the birch tree beetles, but use ustead a cotton fibre, which they gatlnr from the buds on the vines. Otter beetles closely akin to these do not rdl leaves lu this maimer, and, on the oher hand, there are beetles of quite cilTerent families which frequent ly male such nests. Au example of the foruer kind is tho sloe tree beetle, which liys its eggs on the fruit of tills tree, aul an example of the latter kind Is the Hit tree beetle, which also rolls leaves iuo tho shape of a cigar, but not 111 quite the fame manner as the birch tree beetle. The reison why it works differently Is becnus.' it Is dbTerenlly constructed. A very cirlous insect It Is, with a red body, a Aery long neck nud n head which ls s) small that it Is almost in visible. nder these conditions it Is naturally iVtliettlt for It to grasp a leaf nnd roll It ,111041 circular form, as th? birch tree .icetle does. Still. It does the work after its own fashion, and though bard y as faultless n structure as the birch tree beetle's, a very neat piece of work It Is. Xew York Herald. ttnrial 1'lnros of Orinoco, The Guaravno Iudians, who live cn tlie Upper Ori.ioco, have a curious and novel method of disposing of tlielr dead, says the Wide World Magazine, They neither cremate the bodies nor bury them, but Incase them In a species of basket, wiiNi Is tightly wrapped W5P i CUlilOUS BUBIAL PLACES. iu palm fronds and bound with strong, supple grasses. When thus prepared the baskets arc deposited lu soim lonely snot at least a couple of mlh's away from the settle meut. There is something very poetic about this manner of dlsposlni of the dead, and the Indians, who are of a highly imaginative and poetic temperament, are thoroughly alive to this. The nceoinpnnyiug plmtograph was tal:e:i by stealth at great risk, as the (Juiuaiinos Ji'tilously guard their dead from the profane eyes of the stranger. Kissing 11 unils lievlvrtt. Headers of the Pall Mall Gazette have already been informed of the re vival in England of that charming and (del world custom of kissing hands. Positively, a league has now been started to give form aud substance to the revival. The fair members of the b ague for, as It is only fit mid proper, it is exclusively it woman's li'iigue have decreed that their masculine sub jects, admitted to the charmed circle of their saluti.i, shull thereby bind themselves to render this delicate nnd graceful homage. There Is a world of significance in hand kissing. One al most wants a guide to It. For instance, when the admirer delicately salutes the linger tips of the lady fair he Is merely on the footing of an ncqualnt- auce. Should he kiss the palm, that would slgulfy a certain degree of In timacy, uud the wrist even more so The baud Is thus tho barometer of the atVections. The custom is certainly i.iore picturesque than tho haudshake, which Is au abomination, save as a sign of masi'ullue regard. But It re quires a degree of grace not attain able by nil uieu even Frenchmen. t African Fyicmles. Male members of the Akkas, a tribe of pygmies In Africa, never exceed four aud a half feet in height. These little men live chiefly by the chuse, using bows, arrows nud lances with gn-nt dexterity and slaying such large animals as elephants, buffaloes aud chlinpanze!es with comparative case. They are much esteemed as soldiers by the negro tribes among whom they dwell and whom they frequently serve as mercenaries. They nre in the bablt of exchunglug the products of the chase with tlielr negro neighbors for arrows and luuces, but use uo other Implements, a sharp arrow fulfilling tlie purpose of a knife. They possess no vessels of any description, drinking water from the streams lu the hollow tif 1I19 huud. Although they will eat Life's Oddities. almost nny animal substance. Inclu sive of locusts and white nuts, they have th? saving virtue that they arc not cunilbiils, and they never use sal'.. Their only method of capturing Ush Is by dimming off some portion of a stream or pool and then labor iously balling out the water until the fish are left in the mud. Where Prayer Never Ceases. There Is one spot In the United States where the voice of prayer Is never still, says the Methodist Magazine. For more than twenty months tho "turret of prayer" that surrounds the Temple of Truth, near Lisbon Fnlls, Me,, ha never for an Instant been without the prv.n.l r.:' a human voice In supplication. It Is the Intention of the people who attend to this remarkable form of wor ship that prayer In the turret shall never cease so long as tho bulldiiia shall stand. Those who take part In the servloe compose the Holy Ghost aud Us Soc iety. The society afflllntes with no denomination and tries to conform strictly to the teachings of the Bible. Starting without a penny, It has in a few years achieved such success that It has built four buildings, tho Temple of Truth among them, which form a rectangle capable of seat ing ,000 people. Xovel linbbery In Indlii'. A most Ingenious theft is reported on one of the railways in Burmn. The Burmese head-covering. It must be un derstood, Is a silk kerchief, often of considerable value, called "gaung baling." Some young daredevils at tach prickly bushes to long bamboo poles, and when the mall traiu passes they yell out, which causes the native passengers to stick tjielr heads out of tho carriage windows. Tho train is then raked from end to end by means of the scrubby poles, with the result that the Burman male passen gers are deprived of their gating baungs. Some twenty-seven silk head dresses were thus acquired by lh young scamps In one night. 1'rcnk rinviipiile iu Market. A freak pineapple, which is said to be a record-Jnvaker of its kind, was received recently from Florida by H. I. Stanley & Co., of South Water street, commission merchants. On tho stall; ten little pines are growing, while a normal stall: produces only cue. 'ihe freaks are nerfeot in form and color, but not much larger than goose eggs. Former Mayor Smith, who owns a fruit farm iu Florida, ex amined the odd growth and pronounced it the most interesting freak he had ever seen. On his own farm be ouce had a stalk wih seven pines, but the latest specimen breaks the record so far ns Is Uuowu. Chicago Tribune. Novel Type of Ship. A ixvcl vessel has just been launched at the Crescent Shlmavils nt T-n-.n. cbth, X. J. She is known ns the Antice, nud Is Intended for handling fish caught in the Gulf of Mexico. The vessel will meet the ilshiug ves sels, l dieve them of their catches, store the l!sh iu a refrigerated hold and carry them to Galveston. The Antlee In lltu-d with large Ice machines and provided with higli-power engines, which make her capable of obtaining high speed. She Is built of mild lit eel of the highest tensile strength, a-id will use oil for fuel, her bunker car iZ oil In Lulk. ristol uuel Lantern. A recent novelty in invention is a combination revolver nnd dark lantern, Its distinguishing feature lies In the small Incandescent lump situated in a r-tlecting tube placed immediately be low the revolver barrel. A battery in the har.dle of the revolver may be elec ti le-ally connected with tho lamp by n "light pressure of the trigger. Thus should a man suspect a burglar In the bouse he can use his revolver as a dark lantern to find his man and In sure good aim before firing. The Little Finger Null. . Forty j ears ago in certain parts of the United States It was the custom to K"ow long nails. 1 Well remember some of tne swells and puffers who de voted 'more attention to their llttla linger nails than they did to their teth, and often have I seen ti. p.i. digit with a claw on It an inch nnd a quarter In length. This nail was car 'I' d In a stall, aud on occasion was spl it after the manner of a steel 01 quill pen, so that its wearer could sign bis name to a check with It The trimming or nulls to-day is an art, uhlch gives employment to many pretty women who style themselves maui cures. Nearly every first-class, up-to. date barber shop has its manicure who delights the man needing a shave or hair-cut with an Innocent flirtation She dresses garishly nnd has a strut uu her that would arouso the envy of a saddle-astride fox ehnseress.-Vlctv Smith, in tho New York Press. Not the Premier. Lord Salisbury was once the subject of a "tape" Incident which excited a Loudon newspaper office u few years ago. "Sudden death of Lord Salis bury." was the message which startled the sub-editors, and then, by an odd perversity, the machine paused. No body ever waited for the next worel with more suppressed excitement than a little group about the "tape," and when It catno the type printed this: " ' gardener," St. James Guzette. j ;eV.--ei-i;e-0 e - ! New York City. Dark blue and white polka dot dimity is used for this comfortable bouse sacque with ecru lace for trimming. It Is shaped to the MISSES DRESSING SACQfE. ligur-e with timler-arin gores nud iltted bucks, a smooth adjustment being mnhitiilned under the arms and over the hips. The neck Is cut slightly low and square, linished with band of lace. The full fronts nre gathered at the tip pet edge and arranged 011 the lace, fall ing lu long, loose folds over the bust. In some sacques ribbon Is run through a casing or beading nt the neck and tied In a bow, the fulness being adjust ed In this manner. The lower edge of the sacque Is turned up in a deep hem. The sleeves are shaped with inside seams only, nnd have comfortable fulness 011 the shoul ders. They are gathered n short dis tance from the lower edge and drawn close to the arm with a baud of lace. The sleeve below this forms n ruMIe that Hares prettily over the arm. Sucqnes In this style may be made of thin wash fabrics, lawn, swIss or mer cerized cotton, with lace and ribbon for trimuilng. It is also appropriate for albatross, French flannel, challle or FANCY WAIST AND wash silk. To make the sacque for a miss of fourteen years will require two uud e. half yards of Iwunly-seveii iueli material. A StylUll Toilet. White voile Is used fur the stylish tol Ih't shown la the large draw ing, with saffron bice and black ve Ivet ribbon for trimming. White Is the color par ex cellence for dress occasions this season, and many lovely silk and wool fabrics are developed In this cool, niry color. The waist is made over a glove fitted featherboiU'd lining that closes in the centre front. The back Is plain across the shoulders and drawn close to the bi'lt, where the fulness Is ar ranged In tiny pleats. A smooth ad justment Is maintained under the; arms. The front plastron Is Included iu the light shoulder find neck, seams fasten ing Invisibly on theheft. The full fronts are tucked from the yoke to belt, and open to display the plastron to the evalst line. Narrow revels of lace finish the upper part of the full fronts. a transparent lace foliar completed the neck. The sleeve Is tucked from shoulder to elbow and forms a puff be low the tucks that nre gathered aud arrangi'd on a deep-pointed lace cull'. The skirt Is shaped with five well proportioned gores, fitted smoothly around the waist without darts. The fulness In the centre back Is arranged 'n two underlying pleats that are pressed flatly. The skirt doses Invisi bly under these pleats. One or two flounces may be used as preferred. The Illustration eliowg two circular flounces that nre trimmed with narrow velvet ribbon and flare widely around the bottom. A baud of lace finishes the upper edge of the tiouueo. To make the waist In the medium size will require one nnd .a half yards of forty-four-lnch material with one vard of all-over luce. To make the skirt In Iho medium size rill require-tivc nnd one-half yardu of orty-four-lnch material. The Kmbroiilerer's Art. Although plain materials are to be la lode for autumn, It Is not for an In lant to be sujiposid that it means lain costumes. The embroiderer's an 'ill transform many of the plainest ibrlcs to tlroauM of beauty, while nury effects will be produced on the soft BtuiTs by lace or chiffon or by lb deft treatmeut of artistic trlminlugi applique, etc. The New Cnts. The coats of all the costumes de signed for early autumn, says Harper', Bamir, are made long enough to comi more than half-way dowil the skirt ami the short Jacket of last year anl the year before Is quite out of date And yet, to show how capricious ii fashion, an Immensely smart little coa Is on the old-fashioned reefer style double-breasted and curved lu at thi sides. From all present Indications thi autumn and winter will not show nnj more definitely marked Hues than dlr last year. .sence of Artinelikl Lustre. Prim das, soleils, poplins and slmlhu lustrous materials are now quite passe A panne tlnlsh recently Introduced lini met with scant favor. AU the ben' seems to be decidedly toward stuff! with an entire absence of nrlltlcia lustre. Plnlti MntnrlHl r'nvurori. Plain materials are far and nwaj In the lead for autumn wear. Fanej dress weaves have entirely given placi to art in dressmaking In the fashior world these days. Thu Vojfue ol Moirn. The vogue of niolre. revived last spring, will continue throughout the autumn and winter. Metre Vclom will also come lu for .1 share of ttiir popularity. Hopnnck Wouves. Ilopsack weaves in solid colors art to be much worn by ultra-stylist women for knockabout street gowns. Whon I.nni; Coats .-Iro Too Warm. M this season of the year, when long coats are too warm for general wear, short reefers are considered quite com fortable garments for little folk when I FIVE-GOUED PKUtT. the mornings nnd evenings are cool enough to require some slight protec tion. No lining is required, the seams being prettily bound with narrow rib bons in self-colors. This reefer is simply adjusted with shoulder and uiidor-arm seams, fitted smoothly 011 the shoulders and slaving In box effect at the lower edge. It closes In fronfwith large pearl buttons and buttonholes worked through the scallops on the edges. A breuid cape collar, extcuda over the shoulders lit a becoming manner and the turnover collar Is scalloped to cor respond.' The lower edge of the jacket Is scal loped, also the flaring cull's that com pline the., sleeves. These are shaped with upper and under portions and have slight fulness on tho shotihlers. Faiicy fcniber stitching In a contrast- lug color provides au attractive llulsn to (fee edges. To muko the reefer for a child two years old will require oue fcud a half yards of twonty-Boveu-lncu uiutorluL f' it ill CHILD'S BEEfEtt.
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